Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


 GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Gen. R. s. Ripley, who commanded the Confederate batteries that first opened fire on Fort Sumter, was stricken with apoplexy at the New York Hotel and died.
 Calvin Graves, the murderer of the two game wardens in Warrington County, Me-, after evading every official searching for him there, was unexpectedly captured in Oakland, Cal.
 The dwelling house occupied by Matthew Massick at Ludlowville N Y. was burned be- tween 12 and 1 o'clock in the morning. Mas sick and three children perished in the flames. Massick was an employe of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
 The carpenters of Chicago are preparing to enforce their demands for eight hours and 35 cents per hour April 4. The work of the body will be done by Q central council, com posed of three delegates from each organiza- tion. There will probably be forty delegates in the council. The body will represent 25, 900 to 35, GOO men.
 A fire in Troy caused loss of S150,0OO. The we'll known hymnalist ard theologian, Rev. Ray Palmer, died at Newark, N. J.
 Tho Tennessee Legislature adjourned sine die after rejecting nearly every bill of public nature.
 Two skeletons, of woman and child, wer found in concealed receptacle in & house undergoing demolition in Philadelphia.
 Elisha T. Snow, farmer of Holland, Conn.,, who had been suffering from brain trouble, killed his wife and hanged himself. Governor Green, Of New Jersey, has ap- pointed Alexander T. McGil, of Jersey City, to succeed Chancellor Runyon, and has reap pointed Judge Depae.
 -Captain Williams and Second Mate Dick son, the only survivors of the wrecked schooner Marcus A. Davis, arrived on the bark Scots Bay, which rescued them on March 24. NIT. Comeau, a commercial traveller of Go hoes is supposed to be one of the victims of the hotel fire in Buffalo.
 Growers of peaches in the Delaware region express their anger at their treatment by con- mission merchants.
 A broken rail caused the overturning of two cars on the Iron Mountain Railroad, near Pied mont, Mo-, with consequent injuries to passen- gers and crew.
 Five New York manufacturers were arrested and held in $500 each on charges of violating the factory law relative to the employment of girls and women.
 A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts that words denunciatory of the quality of food furnished at a restaurant were not libellous has caused considerable "back talk" among city caterers.
 Paul Tulane, the wealthest citizen of Princeton, N. J., died at his residence in that wealth is estimated at from $5, ,OO0,OOO to ST. Q00,000. He was Frenchman by birth.
 The Prohibitionists of Tennessee have en- tered actively upon the work of the campaign in the interest of the proposed prohibitory amendment to the constitution.
 The official challenge of the Scottish syn- dicate bring to carry off the Americas Cup the n of the Thistle, concerning which there has been so much discussion, are given for the first time. She is to be S5 feet long and 100 tons burden.
 Arkansas is making arrangemenes to pay off portion of her undisputed State debt.
 -Leyba, the New Mexico bandit, has been killed by deputy sheriffs, to the joy of the peo- pie of that Territory.
 Boston barbers and newsboys are happy over modification of the blue Sunday laws by the Massachusetts Legislature.
 Patrick Walsh, of New York, adopted the Hebrew faith and was married to Lena Levi a young Jewess, also of New York.
 William H. Howe, stepson of Robert B Mooney, ex-president of the New York Board of Aldermen, in fit of despondency com mitted suicide by shooting himself through the heart.
 A terrific explosion of fire damp occurred in the Ven Storch colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, on the northern out. skirts of Scranton, killing two miners and seri. ously injuring nine other workmen.
 There was admitted to probate the will ot Captain James B. Eads. His bequests are largely contingent on the S1 000, GOO expected tc be paid him by the United States government for services in connection with the Mississippi jetties.
 A wreck took place on the Southern Pacific At Dryden. station ill the second division, { lN,, 1,1l ,1 tilt into a freight train coming east. Int trainmen had no time to jump, and the break age is very severe. Engineer McCanless wal pinched and scalded to death.
 In Charleston, S. C., Frankie Williams seven years old, was left by his parents to tent the baby while they were out: The child criet and Frankie stuck fork ill its head to qule it. The blow was fatal, and he hid the body but afterwards confessed. He was not held owing to his extreme youth. The Shoe and Leather Reporter says that tn contracts between the manufacturers and tn | Knights of Labor have until June, 1887, t 1 run. There are 23O shoe and boot manufaC 1 turers in New York City, and about 100 belon l to the Boot and Shoe Manufacturers Assocla | tion. They paid $3. 900 GOO in wages last yea out of total of $7, ,556, ,96o paid, and manufae tured 8, 7S4 pairs of shoes.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 Three cases of Asiatic cholera have beer discovered in Pesth, the nature of the malad in each having been clearly established.
 A mum Der of members of the Patriot League tried to lynch Russian spy found l Varna. The Russian took refuge in the Gel | man Consulate.
 In consequence of the discovery of a mil tary conspiracy in Varna the Governor Ina been dismissei and the commander of the NJ tional Guard has been arrested.
 A mob of Greeks Sunday attacked wit stones the residences of the American mission aries in Smyrna The American Legatio there has asked the Porte to send a man-e war to Smyrna to protect the missionaries.
 A dispatch to the London Sportsman fro, Queenstown says that Capt. Samuels, of u yacht Daontless, attributes his defeat by Il Coronet to the interference of MT. Colt, Il owner of the Dauntless, who on board u vessel. Capt. Samuels and five of the ere have left the Dauntless and sailed for Ne | York.
 In the cases of the slave dhows recent captured by the gunboat Albacore and u sloop Dolphin, the Sual1im court martial a. judged the dhows prizes and gave them their captors. The crews of the slavers we severely punished, all being publicly f1ogge The slaves found on the dhows were ordert to be liberated at a British station on the Re Sea.
 A wholesale merchant of St. Pstersbur reputed to be worth millions, has been sh with a revolver and killed by man to who he refused to give 5000 rubles toward t. Nihilist fund. The murderer has been rre ed. Other Russian capitalists are fearful
 suffering similar fate. They are receivil
 death if they do not comply with demands
 furnish money for ''she eoranaon oauss,"